Freshman MechE Schedule

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>I'm planning to take:
Physics 7A
Engineering 10
Math 53
and 1 FFS (either the general Engineering or MechE)</p>

<p>Is this schedule too light? Also, here are a few schedules I made:</p>

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<p>Mechanical Engineers have a very strict and rigid academic program (refer to your flow chart that you got at CalSO).</p>

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<p>by FFS i'm assuming you mean freshman or sophomore seminar which is actually FSS.</p>

<p>anyways, I took a similar schedule last year, but with E28 in place of E10, in addition to a humanities course. I'd recommend taking a humanities course since from my experience they tend to be a breeze compared to engineering requirements. 3 technicals and 1 humanities course, as well as possibly a seminar...that's pretty standard, though some prefer to take it light first semester which also has its positives.</p>

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<p>Yeah, whoops, it is FSS.</p>

<p>Anyway, I signed up for Physics 7A, Engineering 10, MechE 24, and Surviving Engineering 98.</p>

<p>I'm thinking about taking Math 1B instead of 53 because the prof for 53 is Givental and I've heard bad things about him. </p>

<p>Either way, I have AP credit for Math 1A and Chem 1A (8 units), so I figured I could take a light first semester. I was also planning on taking some humanities courses in the summer either at the CC or a summer session at Cal.</p>

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<p>E 98 is a fun class...at first. then it gets tedious and it becomes a drag just to show up. weekly homework assignments...it was more work than my physics 7b class (which had no homework). luckily it was only 10 weeks. i still recommend it though...it's very helpful and informative.</p>

<p>i'd skip out of 1B if i could...it's relatively hard to get an A in that class. Personally I never had Givental but yes, I've heard bad things about it, but you'll have to take 53 eventually and at least for me, I found that I could learn from the book.</p>

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<p>I'm also considering not taking a math class my first semester (and possibly replacing that with some H&SS class) , then taking 53 in the spring. Is that a bad idea?</p>